Former Bakersfield Homeless Center CEO Louis Gill, a candidate for Kern County's 3rd District Board of Supervisors seat, issued a statement Friday conceding defeat in the June 7 primary election.
After eight years, two terms and countless constituent calls, Bakersfield City Councilman Chris Parlier recently announced he would not be seeking a third term.
Manpreet Kaur is proud to be an “other” from Bakersfield. Like many second- and third-generation U.S. Sikhs, however, she’d like to see that ethnic classification — which is really no classification at all — go away.
A longtime local commercial real estate broker announced his candidacy for Ward 3 of the Bakersfield City Council.
More than enough signatures have been gathered to place a voter initiative on the November ballot asking whether to place term limits on members of the county Board of Supervisors, according to a determination made this week by the county's top elections official.
On the heels of the state Legislature's approval of a $300 billion spending plan Monday, Kern's elected officials in the state Assembly and Senate issued the following statements:
Members of California’s Air Resources Board this week questioned the practicalities of their staff’s proposal to ban gas-powered vehicles, raising concerns over challenges in buying and charging electric cars.
While the voter turnout for a primary election can be lower than in a presidential election year, both candidates for the state Senate’s 12th District race were happy with their results Wednesday, but for different reasons.
Several candidates in the June primary will advance to the Nov. 8 general election regardless of the final outcome of the ballots cast Tuesday, because they are the only two candidates in the state’s top-two system.
A majority of Kern ballots from election night have been counted, but a sizable amount of votes remained outstanding Wednesday and could affect outcomes for candidates separated by a thin margin, according to the county elections office.
Assemblyman Vince Fong, R-Bakersfield, recognized a local organization as his Nonprofit of the Year on Wednesday, according to a news release.
In the 22nd Congressional District race, Rep. David Valadao, R-Bakersfield, is hoping to hold off a pair of Republican challengers and Assemblyman Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield, in a bid to keep his seat.
Republican incumbent Kevin McCarthy and Democratic challenger Marisa Wood, in early voting results Tuesday, were comfortably ahead of three other candidates running for California's 20th Congressional District seat.
While the final numbers weren’t available as of press time, both state Sen. Shannon Grove and challenger Susanne Gundy knew they would be facing off for the state Senate’s 12th District seat in November.
Five of the dozens of Kern County candidates vying for reelection had a relatively easier path than most.
The race for Kern County's Third District Board of Supervisors seat was too early to call Tuesday as early results showed all three candidates within 9.5 percentage points of each other.
Early results Tuesday in the auditor-controller-county clerk-registrar of voters race showed Aimee Espinoza leading over opponent Mark McKenzie with 60.65 percent of the votes.
While the run-up to the primary in the 16th District generated some heated discussion between two Democrats thought to be front-runners, the Republican challenger took an early lead Tuesday night.
Assessor-recorder candidate Laura Avila pulled ahead of opponent Todd Reeves in early returns, with 265 precincts out of 569 reporting at 10:07 p.m. Tuesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded $4.3 million to the Mojave Air and Space Port to improve the facility's main and longest runway.
Months of campaigning will culminate Tuesday with a statewide primary election that could decide a number of Kern County seats while also deciding finalists for a series of state and federal runoffs coming this fall.
When Ashley Raveche and her husband bought their home in Mill Valley, they thought they were doing everything right. The 1,300 square foot house already had vents with screens that make it harder for embers to get in and a tar and gravel roof, top-rated for fire safety. They installed double…
The campaign to expand free tuition to more low-income California students has been riding a wave of unanimous goodwill, despite its large costs. But the state’s — and nation’s — largest public university system has made public its concern that key trade-offs required for that expansion will…
If you haven’t noticed, your mail carrier certainly has: Election season has arrived in California and with it, the regular flood of political ads from unions, corporations and other special interest groups hoping to influence your vote.
The Kern County Elections Office announced this week that official drop boxes are now available 24 hours, 7 days a week. The boxes will close at 8 p.m. on June 7.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Wednesday a bill introduced by state Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, that would exempt certain tribal gaming projects from review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
California lawmakers won’t be creating a state Election Day holiday this year. Nor will they be providing grants to local governments to convert public golf courses into affordable housing, or forcing health insurers to cover fertility treatments.
Leave it to politicians: The only consensus among all four underdogs in the race for California's new 20th Congressional District is that they all see themselves, individually, as the best alternative to eight-term incumbent Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield.
There are five candidates on the ballot in the June primary for whom defeat is, quite literally, not an option.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you your vote doesn’t count. Especially if you live in the 22nd Congressional District in 2022.
The three men running for Kern County's Third District supervisor seat have made it easy on voters this year by presenting them with distinct candidate choices leading up to the June 7 primary election.
Residents of the 16th Senate District will have a handful of choices to choose from on the ballot June 7.
The race for the 12th District seat in the state Senate is setting up a partisan dichotomy for voters.
California is poised this year to make changes to what some call “hidden” court fees, hundreds of dollars often tacked onto traffic tickets and minor violations that can increase their cost nearly tenfold. But so far, state officials disagree on how far to go.
California Democrats are locked in one of the most consequential disputes in modern state history over the future of the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail project after a decade of troubled construction.
Kern County's lawsuit challenging California's de-facto ban on fracking has been thrown out of court after a Fresno judge ruled last month the filing was misdirected and improperly sought to limit Gov. Gavin Newsom's speech or executive duties.
The Kern County Elections Office released a list this week of candidates who’ve accepted expenditure limits under Measure K.
The Fair Political Practices Commission said in a letter Thursday it's looking into a complaint lodged against Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez alleging she violated the Political Reform Act’s campaign disclosure provisions.
State Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, announced Tuesday that Senate Bill 1195 passed unanimously through the Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to renew a $224,316 contract with Dominion Voting Systems during Tuesday’s meeting.
A bipartisan effort by state Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, to add human trafficking to the state’s list of 42 serious and 23 violent crimes, failed Tuesday in a 2-1 party-line vote in the Senate Public Safety Committee.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday released new fundraising totals that underscored his reputation as a major force in helping finance Republican political campaigns.
A national political effort targeting battleground districts like the southern Central Valley's 22nd Congressional District kicked off a local campaign Friday with a modest morning event at Bakersfield's Liberty Bell.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy led a chorus of local Republican lawmakers and oil producers Monday in denouncing Democratic oil and gas policies at the federal and state levels, saying the United States would be stronger and the world safer if domestic producers were allowed to drill for more petroleum.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors joined a growing chorus of local Republicans in calling Tuesday for Gov. Gavin Newsom to loosen restrictions on local oilfield permitting amid the ban on Russian imports.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy reentered California energy politics Tuesday with a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for looser oil permitting — including a repeal of the governor's ban on fracking — to help dull economic pain expected from President Joe Biden's move earlier in the d…
Well into his campaign for the 3rd District seat of the Kern County Board of Supervisors, former California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Brian Smith formally announced to the news media Thursday he is running for the position.
Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a mix of investments Monday to support California's — and specifically Kern's — transition from petroleum to renewable power, including $83 million toward construction of an energy innovation center at Cal State Bakersfield and $215 million to train displaced oil…
It came as little surprise at this point, but on Monday, Kern County Supervisor Mike Maggard made it official by announcing he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in June.
As the clock ticks for federal employees and contractors to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or face weekly testing, Rep. David Valadao sent a letter Monday calling on President Joe Biden to set aside the mandates for economic reasons.
Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 251,888
Deaths: 2,456
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 243,766
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated: 75.13
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated: 83.35
Updated: 6/17/22
